1. The Government of India Act, 1935 was based on

2. Which one of the following statements with regard to 'Direct Action Day' is correct?

3. Which one of the following statements about Khilafat Movement is not correct?

4. Planning in India drew on

5. Which of the following statements with regards to the Civil Disobedience movement is/are correct ?
1. The movement received massive response from business groups and peasantry
2. The movement coincided with large scale labour upsurge in Maharashtra
3. The movement was marked by the mass participation of lawyers and students Select the correct answer using the code given below :

6. Gandhiji's 'Harijan Campaign' sought to
1. attack caste system as a whole
2. open wells, road, temples, etc to Harijans
3. encourage social work among Harijans Select the correct answer using the code given below.

7. Which of the following thinkers and movements influenced the development of Gandhiji's politial ideas ?
1. Henry David Thoreau
2. John Ruskin
3. John Milton
4. Jainism Select the correct answer using the code given below:

8. Who launched the Bardoli Satyagraha on 4th February, 1928?

9. DIRECTIONS (Qs. 62-64) : The next three (03) items are based on the passage given below. The myth is that the Indian National Congress was started by A.O. Hume and others under the official direction, guidance and advice of no less a person than Lord Dufferin, the Viceroy, to provide a safe, mild, peaceful and constitutional outlet of safetyvalve for the rising discontent among the masses, which was inevitably leading towards a popular and violent revolution. Consequently, the revolutionary potential was nipped in the bud. Most writers accept the core of the myth, that a violent revolution was on the cards at the time and was avoided only by the foundations of the congress,…….. All of them agree that the manner of its birth affected the basic character and future work of the congress in a crucial manner.
62. The colonial rulers, according to the safety valve thesis, were trying to use congress as

10. Consider the following statements:
1. The East India Company for the first time through the Charter Act of 1813, adopted a provision to spend one lakh rupees per annum for the spread of education in India.
2. The Wood’s Dispatch of 1854 recommended the establishment of one university each in Calcutta, Bombay and Madras on the model of the London University. Which one of the statements given above is/are correct ?

11. Who among the following established Fergusson College at Pune in the Year 1885?

12. Consider the following:
1. Bardoli Satyagraha 2. Champaran Satyagraha
3. Rowlatt Satyagraha Which one of the following is the correct chronological order of the above?

13. What was the common element among the following three newspapers?
(i) The Servant of India (ii) Dnyan Prakash (iii) Hitawad

14. The 19^th Century Faraizi Movement in eastern Bengal developed under the leadership of:

15. Who among the following is the author of the book ‘The Indian Struggle, 1920–1934’ ?

16. Which of the following statements with regard to the 'Fifth Report' is/are correct?
1. It was submitted to the British Parliament in 1813 for consideration.
2. It became the basis of intense parliamentary debates on the nature of the East India Company's rule in India.
3. It was primarily on the economic conditions of the urban and industrial centres of India. Select the correct answer using the code given below:

17. Who among the following is one of the authors of the book “Philosophy of the Bomb”?

18. Who among the following founded the Rajahmundri Social Reform Association in 1878 in support of widow remarriage?

19. Consider the following statements:
1. The Indian National Congress was formed during the Viceroyalty of Lord Dufferin.
2. The first President of Indian National Congress was Woomesh Chandra Banerji.
3. The first session of the Indian National Congress was held in Calcutta.
4. In the first session of the Indian National Congress some government officials were also present. Which of the following statements given above are correct ?

20. Which one of the following organizations was started by Jyotirao Phule in 1873 ?

21. Consider the following statements relating to planning in India :
1. In the year 1938, the National Planning Committee was set up in India under the chairmanship of Jawaharlal Nehru.
2. The Bombay Plan was prepared by the Indian industrialists.
3. Acharya Kripalini prepared the Gandhian Plan. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

22. Consider the following statement No Indian could have started the Indian National congress.. If the founder of the congress had not been a great Englishman and a distinguished ex-official, such was the distrust of political agitation in those days that the authority would have at once found some way or the other to suppress the movement. Who among the following gave the statement on the establishment of Indian National Congress?

23. The agenda for the London was to

24. The Senia tradition is:

25. Which of the following statements about the Chittagong group is NOT correct?